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In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances.

If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.

Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

So that they can actually make it known to the American people before they vote what they're voting for.

Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.

We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession.

I've seen it all, done it all, known it all.

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.

I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.

Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

Amadu is all about the family. I've never known love like that before, and it made me think, 'I want a bit of that'. It kind of forced me to get to know my family again. Another reason why he's so lovely.

I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.